Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

Terence Francis Eagleton dit Terry (né le 22 février 1943 à Salford, Greater Manchester) est un théoricien et critique de la littérature, actuellement considéré comme l'un des plus influents du monde britannique[1]

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Biographie

D'abord professeur de littérature anglaise à l'université d'Oxford (1992-2001), il enseigne actulellement la littérature anglaise à l'université de Manchester. Auteur d'une quarantaine d'ouvrages, ses plus connus comprennent: Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) ; The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990) ou encore The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996). Il fut l'élève de Raymond Williams à Cambridge et fut également influencé par les travaux de Louis Althusser et la psychanalyse. Il a défendu à plusieurs reprises l'œuvre de Slavoj Žižek qu'il a contribué à faire connaître en Angleterre.

Carrière, engagements

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Publications

  • The New Left Church [as Terence Eagleton] (1966)
  • Shakespeare and Society
  • Exiles And Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature (1970)
  • The Body as Language : outline of a new left theology (1970)
  • Criticism & Ideology (1976)
  • Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
  • Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981)
  • The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson (1982)
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983/1996)
  • The Function of Criticism (1984)
  • Saint Oscar (a play about Oscar Wilde)
  • Saints and Scholars (a novel, 1987)
  • Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives (editor) Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
  • The Significance of Theory (1989)
  • The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990)
  • Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
  • Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, The Derek Jarman Film (1993)
  • The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
  • « Heathcliff and the Great Hunger » (1996)
  • « Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture » (1998)
  • The Idea of Culture (2000)
  • The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001)
  • The Truth about the Irish (2001)
  • Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002)
  • After Theory (2003)
  • The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
  • Holy Terror (2005)
  • The Meaning of Life (2007)
  • How to Read a Poem (2007)

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Notes et références

  1. ↑ "...the man who succeeded F R Leavis as Britain's most influential academic critic", in The Independent, 13 October 2007. "Terry Eagleton: Class warrior".

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